Jens Deppe wrote: > Hello, > > "Hypothetical" situation: > > Given a system with a base install of 2009.06, I add an additional > publisher for ipkg.sfbay/support in order to install, say, SRU1. So > 'pkg publisher' shows this: > > opensolaris.org (preferred) origin online > http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release/ > support origin online > http://ipkg.sfbay/support
Note that the /support repo is really supposed to completely supplant /release -- that is, rather than adding /support (under whatever name), you should simply change the URL of opensolaris.org to that of the support repo. In newer versions of pkg(5), this is enforced, as the client requires you to use the same publisher prefix as the publisher itself advertises, and both these repos advertise "opensolaris.org" as their prefix, forcing only one to be configured at a time. > At some point that person wants to update to a newer SRU. Am I correct in > understanding that they will have to re-add a publisher called 'support' > (actual URL irrelevant) before they are able to perform the update? It would be best, yes. Otherwise, the system would get very confused. Even more confused than it already is by having two repos with essentially the same content under two different names. > Also, is there any other way, other than say querying the 'entire' > package to look for the previously used publisher, that they would > know to use this specific name for their publisher? You should be able to use "pkg list" for this, but there's no particular package you're supposed to do this for. Primarily because you're not really running in a supportable configuration as it is. Danek
